Not having an intimate knowlege of presidents before I was politicaly aware (Nixon), I cannot speak to that but I would suppose you are correct. When this country needs immediate action, when it requires leadership, then presidents should be granted a little extra leiniency but those actions should, as soon as possible, come under the scruteny of Congress AND - AND - AND, the American people. We cannot wait 30, 50, 100 years - or never, for the truth to be revealed. This is how our presidents now preside over questionable practices, by burying their actions under blankets mandated to be swept from the corpses in future generations, far too late to correct them, and in most cases far to late to even impugn the president that caused the actions. People talk of Obama's broken promises, and I have spoken up about how many he has indeed accomplished, but his largest and least forgiveable failures surround his secrecy. He should do what he believes he must, and then take the consequences of his actions WHILE he is in office or shortly thereafter, by making those actions available to the public and coupling them with his reasoning for taking those actions.